Thoughts on this blog post alleging harassment (and worse) against Codesmith?

PART 1 (there are comment length limits so going to reply in pieces) HISTORY: * Novati left Facebook in 2017. In 2009, Novati joined Facebook as a software engineer, progressing rapidly to the level of Principal Engineer (E7). He has publicly recounted a story about a game of Risk in which he deliberately betrayed Mark Zuckerberg, framing it as an example of “strategic thinking.” The anecdote offers an early insight into his competitive approach to professional relationships. The Risk story is true. I don't agree with the characterization. * Novati left Facebook in 2017. True. * In 2019, he co-founded the coding bootcamp Formation with his wife, Sophie Novati, who assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer. Novati became Chief Technology Officer. Not true. Sophie started a free coding bootcamp in 2017 called Buildschool. She realized that coding bootcamps were not a scalable business, so we founded Formation and subsumed Buildschool, a technology platform company focused on interview prep, in 2019 and got funding for that. The explicit goal was to not be a bootcamp and to work with bootcamp grads for interview prep and resume/project building. We no longer do project building aspect for many years and focus just on interview prep. * In 2021, Formation raised a four-million-dollar seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. True. * By 2024, Formation had reportedly ceased operating as a traditional bootcamp and shifted focus to a new model. The reasons for this pivot remain unclear. We never operated as a traditional bootcamp - other than Buildschool from 2017 to 2019. There was no pivot and we are running the same platform we did since day 1. * During this same period, Novati became the dominant moderator of the Reddit community [r/codingbootcamp](https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/), a key online forum for the software-training industry. Other moderators listed on the subreddit had long been inactive, giving Novati de facto control. Dominant is subjective because the other mods are just quieter, but I did become a mod more recently. * From that position, Novati began posting extensively about a direct competitor, Codesmith. Over a period of 487 days, he published 425 negative comments or posts referencing the company—an average of almost one per day.